The Only Thing That Matters
1 min readAug 12, 2018
The only thing that matters is the music.
Not the twinges in his fingers or the constant dull ache in his arms and back that just gets worse every year. Not the argument he had with the club owner that means he probably won’t play here again.
Not the worry about his mortgage or the truck repairs or the guy who’s starting to hang around his daughter.
Not even the invading alien race that has just destroyed half of Eurasia and whose armada of ships will reach the U.S. in about thirty minutes, according to the weeping newscasters on the big flatscreen TV over the bar.
The only thing that matters, is the music.
